Best Bevel Setting Stone?....

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efaden

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Naniwa Bamboo 150... ? Atoma 140x...?...

What do people think is the best stone for thinning and bevel setting?
 
I have a Nubatama Bamboo 150, and while it does a good job setting a bevel, it dishes fairly quickly. I'm saving up for an Atoma 140.
 
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I have the 140x... Hoping there was something faster... maybe I just need to use a grinder.
 
Just in case you weren't.

I know that slows the process.

Cheers
 
I haven't found that the Nubatama 150 dishes quickly. Maybe I use less pressure and more repetitions than most. A good choice in the Nubatama line is the 150/1200 combo stone. Unless your sharpening allot its a good bag for the buck item.

Fast on stones is, most of the time, counter productive in my experience.
 
Atoma 140 is tough to beat for the quality of bevel it produces. There might be faster waterstones but they wear quickly and will scratch up the side of blades because of all the mud.

There is always machines but you lose a lot of accuracy when you go that route, and if you switch back to stones you end up spending just as much time fixing all the inconsistencies the machine just created.
 
Jason B. said:
Atoma 140 is tough to beat for the quality of bevel it produces. There might be faster waterstones but they wear quickly and will scratch up the side of blades because of all the mud.

There is always machines but you lose a lot of accuracy when you go that route, and if you switch back to stones you end up spending just as much time fixing all the inconsistencies the machine just created.
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Glad that's not just me...the tailed apprentices save a lot of time, but always seem to require a bit of cleanup.
 
efaden said:
Naniwa Bamboo 150... ?
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Like another poster, I'm going to assume you mean the Nubatama Bamboo 150. I've got one and it works ok. It's not as fast as the DMT XXC. Ken Schwartz claims that the Nubatama 150 is a good following stone for a low grit diamond plate like the XXC, saying that it takes the scratches out, and converts the pattern over to something more suitable for a waterstone progression. I haven't tried that; just relaying what he's said in the past.

The Nubatama 150 *does* dish. If you do significant grinding on it, you'll want to flatten it... which requires a nice flattener of some sort that's pretty tough. The Atoma 140 is supposed to be great for that.

Brian.
 
I don't have many stones, but I work with what I have. My Gesshin 400 grit is my favorite steel remover, it's very smooth for being a low grit, takes more time than other 400 or lower grit stones I've used, but I kind of like that.
 
If you need something that works faster than an Atoma,then you need to get power tools. Not familiar with the Bamboo 150, but the Atoma grinds steel like crazy.
 
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